I wash them whenever I go to the bathroom or if I’m about to cook something. If I get something on them then I’ll wash them too. I don’t just go around washing my hands randomly throughout the day though. I avoid hand sanitizer and rarely use it.

I hardly ever get sick, but I also take some vitamins to help prevent that as well.

My husband would tell you I wash them a hundred times a day, but probably really closer to 15. I used to work restaurants so I’m fanatical about after using or going into the bathroom, before and in between touching food, and anytime I touch my face or hair. And I’m really picky about wiping down shopping cart handles, man, those things are disgusting. I also wash my hands after letting my dogs in from the outside or coming home from somewhere. I know it seems like overkill, but I’m sick for the first time in more than ten years and I swear I picked this up from the grocery store, which is the only place I’ve been for the last few weeks and they were out of wipes and I didn’t have any.

i wash my hands numerous times a day. every time i use the washroom (a lot), before i prepare any food, many times while preparing the food, before putting away clean dishes, after sorting dirty laundry, before touching clean laundry, when i get home from being out, etc.

Every single time I visit the lavatory, whenever I deal with dog poo bags and always when preparing food. I am by no means obsessive about hand washing and I do believe that it is healthier to build a natural immunity to germs. For all that, I don’t believe in encouraging germs to make a cosy home on my hands.

What I don’t do is use those anti-bacterial soaps and sprays though. Unless you are a surgeon or work in a hospital where unpleasant hsopital borne germs lurk, soap and warm water is just as effective. It’s not as hard on the hands either because I find anti-bac products give me dermatitis if used regularly.

At work at a daycare and we have to wash our hands every time we enter or leave the room, change diapers, feed them, wipes noses, clean toys, etc. It easily pushes 20+ times a day. I keep lots of lotion nearby so my hands don’t dry out. We also wash the kids hands probably 10+ times a day and teachers and parents can’t wear shoes inside the infant rooms as they crawl on the floor.

I only ever wash my hands when I get something on them, when I touch someone who clearly is sick, when I go to the washroom and when I need to cook something with my hands.

Other than that I could care less about washing my hands. I don’t usually ever get sick anymore so I suspect that it may have something to do with the germs I get on my hands and into my sistem.

I have somehow caught worms twice in my life so my mother always tells me it is because I don’t wash my hands. But once those eggs are under your nails from a non-dewormed puppy playing with you I highly doubt a standard hand washing would prevent it.